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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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